Ruth Maleczech

Ruth Maleczech Workshop:

We will work on new concepts applied to American classical texts – how these concepts might affect design, performance, language and direction.

Ruth Maleczech Bio

Ruth Maleczech is a founder and present co-artistic director of Mabou Mines, now celebrating it’s 40th anniversary year. A fearless actor, Maleczech has collaborated on nearly every piece Mabou Mines has produced since 1970 and is possessed of “a theatrical vision…antithetical to almost everything contemporary American theater is about… [She is an] inspiration as an artist, a feminist and a creative spirit” (Women in Theatre). She has won 3 Obies, NEA Distinguished Artist Award, Foundation of Contemporary Arts Fellow, Otto Rene Castillo Award, U.S. Artists Gracie Fellow for 2010.

First and foremost an actress, Maleczech has nevertheless directed several works: Wrong Guys, from the hard-boiled novel by Jim Strahs; Vanishing Pictures, based on Poe’s “Mystery of Marie Roget”; Beckett’s Imagination Dead Imagine; The Bribe by Terry O’Reilly; her own Sueños and Belén: A Book of Hours, examining the plight of contemporary Mexican women; and most recently, Song For New York, a feminine response to 9/11. Maleczech’s alliance with Lee Breuer is the stuff of avant-theatrical legend. A shared appetite for complexity coupled with deep and abiding respect has sustained their tumultuous personal and professional lives. In addition to working together for a good half century, they have raised two children, Clove and Lute.